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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with 02:17.  I'd also like to add that even though the younger siblings may have gotten the parent to pay their college bills, it was done only after the kids threatened to cut off the parent.  It's very possible that the widowed parent had to use their retirement funds to do so, and that could explain their reluctance to pay.  And after the parent was done with kids 2, 3 and 4, how much $ could be left for #1, who was already married?  And the parent's retirement.  Maybe the parent figures the kids will have to provide the elder care.

No parent should be expected to finance kids' education expenses by sacrificing their retirement savings, let alone for for a married child's expenses.  Maybe OP did not like how the message came across to her, but it probably did not have anything to do with "using her because she's an immigrant."

OP's own parents could not pay entirely for her education, yet she somehow thinks a widowed, single parent of 4 should have the money to fully finance 4 college educations.  That's hard to do even when you have 2 working parents.

The person who betrayed OP is young OP.  She willingly did this for her DH when he needed it.  She could've (and should have) said "no" to her DH back then.

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